Show hundred years old CHICAGO march 22 special cut at la grange one of the numerous farming suburbs of this chiy jerry 0 alears surrounded by a hoet of his relatives and friends is today celebrate the one hundredth ot hia birth the veteran who first saw the haht of day in newton falls vermont is in the best of health with well preserved hearing and eyesight and bida fair to celebrate a good many more he has remarkable memory and frequently narrated atea his impression of the battle of lake Oham plain which he witnessed eighty five years ago at the ago of fifteen he was a great friend or and one of the first acts of the later on becoming was to appoint him to one of the then moat profitable in the state |